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Released a new Figma UI Kit for Chakra UI

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Today is my first day at @vercel and I'm excited to join this amazing team to make the web faster in every possible way ▲

Chakra UI joined Redwood.js' v1 Launch Week to showcase how Chakra UI works seamlessly with Redwood. Lazar Nikolov and Esther Agbaje give the talk. It went great! Here's the launch tweet: https://t...

Gave a Q1 2022 report update of Chakra UI to the core members to help them appreciate how far we've come as a team. I also discussed the mission of Chakra UI, our roadmap for the next months, and t...

Had a chat with Kitze about the upcoming features in Chakra UI v1. I had a live stream with Kitze and it turned out to be one of the best shows I've been on. The conversation was very real, honest,...

Graduated from the University of Lagos with a First Class Honors (4.78/5.00)

Spoke on a panel of community experts at the "almighty" Microsoft Build 2020 event. The topic of the conversation was "Building a Web For Everyone". I'm grateful to be invited by Chris Nwamba (than...

Very excited to launch Chakra UI Pro 🎉 with Christian Schroter. Chakra UI Pro is a premium set of component layouts that help you launch your website, app, or eCommerce app with speed. It took us 3...

Spoke with a panel of React experts about the "State of React". The panel chat was about modern web technology advancements and events in the React Ecosystem. Watch it here https://www.youtube.com/...

Join a panel chat organized by This Dot Media about the "State of UI" and modern web technology advancements Watch the chat here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyrCFOiMTCk&t=12s

Chakra UI was featured in a Retool article as one of the "Top react component libraries for 2021" See the article here: https://retool.com/blog/react-component-libraries/

Got featured on the front page of Hackernews, related to Chakra UI of course! I didn't even post this myself. I noticed a fan of Chakra UI mentioned me on Twitter and I found it. Grateful 🥰 https:/...

Launched Chakra UI Vue with Jonathan. Shortly after launching Chakra UI React, Jonathan reached out to show me how he's working on a Vue.js version of Chakra UI. I collaborated with him for another...

Chakra UI got featured in the WebAxe blog about accessible component libraries. So amazing! https://www.webaxe.org/web-accessible-code-library-design-systems-patterns/

Speak with Kathy and Brian @Github about my journey to building and launching Chakra, and how I prioritized empathy and took risks to build and launch Chakra UI Listen in: https://github.com/readme...

Move to Dubai 🇦🇪 from Nigeria 🇳🇬

I had a chat with Feross and Emma about Chakra UI, a modular React component library that’s changing the game for design systems and app development Listen in: https://changelog.com/jsparty/125

Spoke with Joel Hooks about my journey from design to development and my motivations for building Chakra UI. Listen in: https://egghead.io/podcasts/why-segun-adebayo-calls-himself-a-ux-engineer-ins...

Gave a talk at the DevMode show about the Chakra came to be, and how helping people has changed his life. I also talked about how my experience as a designer helped me make Chakra UI into something...

I spoke at SpeakEasyJS about how to build accessible UI components using XState and State Machines. Gave a demo of a slider component. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ChS2Iq5xk8&t=1...

I had the pleasure of chatting with Gift about Chakra UI, Open Source, Work-Life Balance and so much more. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpKMxzQvRzk

Got featured in Github ReadME Project. The article was about my journey to building Chakra UI, the backstory, and my current struggles. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be vulnerable and share t...

Had a chat with Lee Robinson (Head of DevRel @ Vercel) about the future of Chakra UI and what's coming next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5xEc9t-HZg

Gave a talk at @KarlsruheJS about Chakra UI v1 In this talk, I showcased the upcoming features in the next major version of Chakra UI. Did some live coding sessions and I think it was pretty smooth...

Chakra UI won an award at the 2022 React Summit hosted by GitNation. It was nominated and awarded as the "Most Impactful Project to the Community". It was the first time my work was globally recogn...

I'm super excited to be nominated and awarded the 2021 Github Stars award for my work on Chakra UI and how it helped shape the JavaScript community. Website: https://stars.github.com/profiles/segun...

Launched Chakra UI, an open-source component library that helps developers create apps with speed. Key features: • Simple layout primitives like Box, Grid, Stack, etc. • Careful accessibility consi...